Ancestry of
Cokie Roberts

Author and TV Journalist

(Thomas) Hale Boggs

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• • Father of Cokie Roberts — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • William Robertson Boggs 
  • Mother:
  • Claire Josephine Hale   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Feb 1914 
  • Birth Location:
  • Long Beach, Harrison, Mississippi 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Oct 1972 
  • Death Location:
  • Alaska 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1938 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • House Majority Leader

    Hale Boggs was aboard a plane that disappeared in Alaska on 16 OCT 1972. A search could not locate the plane and he was declared dead on 29 DEC 1972.

• Sources for (Thomas) Hale Boggs

  • ¹ Daily Herald (Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi), 23 OCT 1956, p. 2, Obituary for grandmother Gabriel Hale.
  • ² Federal Census, LA, Orleans Parish, 1940, New Orleans, E.D. 36-325, Sheet 6A, Image 11 of 40.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/17/2019).
  • ⁴ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), 28 JUL 2013, p. 25, Obituary for spouse Lindy Boggs.
  • ⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #59560, Membership application for Thomas Hale Boggs.
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #86025, Membership application for Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr..
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 87.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Hale Boggs", (accessed 09/06/2018).

Cokie Roberts photo by NARA